John Wilkes Booth

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John Wilkes Booth, President Abraham Lincoln's assassin. Federal troops surrounded him in 1865 on a farm near Bowling Green, Va. He later was found dying in a barn, the victim of either a suicide or a shooting.

John Wilkes Booth, President Abraham Lincoln's assassin. Federal troops surrounded him in 1865 on a farm near Bowling Green, Va. He later was found dying in a barn, the victim of either a suicide or a shooting.